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ELIE MONEUSE AND LOUIS DUPARQUET, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters .Patent No. 79,590, dated July 7, 1868.

IMPROVMENT- IN STOVE-GBATES.

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TO ALL WHOMi I'l', MAY CON'CEN: 1

Be it known that we, ELIE MoNnUsE and Louis DUPARQUET, of the city and State of New York, have i'nvented,

- made, and applied to use, a certain new and useful Improvenient in Grates for Stoves and Ranges; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clearyand exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawing', making part of this specification,-wherein- Fignre 1 is a' Vertical longitndinal section of a range containing our improved grate.

Figure 2 is a sectional plan, showing the grate anl latch-lever for the same, and

Figure 3 is la Vertical section of the latch-lever and grate.`

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

' This invention is intended to prevent the grate being'accidentally dropped down while the fire is being r'aked.

:It frequently h-appens that, in raking the fire, the latch that holds up the grate is pressed back, and the grate falls down, sometimes bnrning the cook, always making a dust and dirt, and sometimes seriously delaying -the o iilinary Operations, in consequencc of having to rebnild the fire.

The nature of our said invention consists in a' locked leyer, that ope'r''tes the catch that holds up the grate In the drawing, a. a represent the ovens, b 'b'the flues, co the warmingovens, and dthe fireplace, line'd'with brick o r soapstone, e, asusual. In fi`g. 2, the fire-brick is shown as remove'd.

"fisthe grate, fitted to swing on the trunnions z'z', so that' the same maybe dropped or tipped, to empty the ashes and cinders previolrsly to making the fire.

h is a lever, upon which is a projection that forms .a'catc'h',.l,- to hold np the grate. k isthefulcrum of said l'ever 7L, and n is a looking-link, connected with thezotherrend o'f the lever h, and passing th 'rlo n'ghan opening in lthe front plate of the stov'e or range, and provided with notches on the under side, whereby the link, leven, and catch will be held in place to support the grate` i It will now he seen that the poker, in raking the-fine; cannot move any of'the parts that support the grate,

, land that, before the grate can be tipped,` .the lokingflink'n has to be lifted and drawn forward, so as to move the lever and catch Z.

` ,It will be evident that, in cases where the trunnions are atthe front`,an' l back portionsof the grato, so

that the gratetip's sidewise, the looking-level' should be placed at the side ofr'the grate` instead of the front.

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Fatent, isi The leverfi and catch Z, applied substantially as specified, for. snstainingithe swinging gtate.

In witness'ivhereof, we have hereunto set our signatures, this six'th day of May, A. D. 1868.

I ELIE MONEUSE,

LOUIS DUPARQUET. 

